Jan S. Potempa

Associate Editor, FEBS Open Bio

Jagiellonian University Krakow, Kraków, Poland

Jan Potempa holds joint appointments as Professor and Academic Scholar at the University of Louisville Dental School and as Head of the Department of Microbiology at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He completed his PhD and DSc in Biochemistry at the Jagiellonian University, and then moved to the University of Georgia, first as a postdoc in James Travis’ lab (1985–1988) and then as a Senior Research Scientist (1989–2008). His investigations are focused on proteolytic enzymes of bacterial pathogens that play important roles in the dysregulation of a number of physiological pathways and evasion of host immunity.